Açıklama : Our Milky Way
Galaxy arcs over a
desolate landscape
in this fantastic
panoramic
night skyview.
The otherworldly scene looks across the arid, eroded terrain of the
Valle de la Luna
in the Chilean Atacama desert.
Just along the horizon are lights from San Pedro, Chile,
as well as the small villages of Socaire and Toconao, and
a tortuous road from the city of Calama to San Pedro.
Taken on October 18th, the five panel mosaic
also features the four galaxies easily visible from our
fair planet's dark sky regions.
At the far left, satellite galaxies known as the
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
are framed by their terrestrial namesakes.
Much fainter and at the right, beyond the Milky Way's central bulge,
is the Andromeda Galaxy.
The most distant in view,
Andromeda lies some 2.5 million light-years away.